Gov. Janet Mills on Wednesday proposed a $10.3 billion budget that will largely shape political negotiations in Augusta and state…
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In April of 2020, the Press Herald republished a Washington Post article which covered President Trump’s distribution of $1,200 relief checks to…
The $850 checks passed as part of the most recent supplemental budget deal will begin arriving in the mailboxes of…
With only three days left in the 130th Legislature’s second session, both the Senate and House of Representatives held sessions…
The Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs (AFA) met late on the evening of April 14 and voted unanimously to…
With one week left in the legislative session and work on the supplemental budget still unfinished, both the Senate and…
The 130th Maine Legislature is currently scheduled to adjourn its second session on April 20, giving legislators a little more…
During a work session on a bill proposing to return surplus money to taxpayers, Democrats on the Maine Legislature’s Committee…
Gov. Janet Mills unveiled her change package to the supplemental budget on March 18, which spends all but $20 million…
On February 15, Gov. Janet Mills released her supplemental budget proposal, which includes $850 million in proposed spending and provides…
On February 7, Gov. Janet Mills unveiled an $8 million proposal intended to strengthen Maine’s child welfare system that will…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills will deliver the State of the State address on February 10. She will not release her…
When the 130th Maine Legislature reconvenes for its second session in January 2022, it will debate the state’s next supplemental…
In late November, the Revenue Forecasting Committee (RFC), a branch of the Maine Legislature’s Office of Fiscal and Program Review,…
The administration of Gov. Janet Mills announced on November 10 it will soon begin distributing “disaster relief payments” passed as…
The bill passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 123-23 and the Senate by a vote of 32-3. It received bipartisan support in both chambers.
The Legislature’s Appropriations Committee voted unanimously Sunday to advance a supplemental budget, and lawmakers in the House and Senate approved…
The Granite State passed a new budget last week that should have people in the Pine Tree State jealous of…
A new bipartisan budget agreement might prove that lawmakers learned a valuable fiscal lesson from the fallout of the pandemic,…
On June 17, the Maine Legislature is expected to adjourn a special session without voting on the supplemental budget or…
Governor Janet Mills unveiled a new supplemental budget last week that would grow state spending in Maine to record levels,…
When President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan, he provided state and local governments over $350 billion in much-needed assistance.…
Maine lawmakers convened at the Augusta Civic Center on Tuesday to tackle the state’s next two-year spending plan. The budget…
Maine’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee met on Thursday to hold a work session on LD 715, a concept draft…
The Maine Legislature will convene in person on Tuesday to approve the state’s next biennial budget, likely along party lines.…
It appears Maine Democrats are looking to advance a majority budget in the next week to avoid working with their…
State government spending has rapidly outpaced population growth in Maine over the last decade, according to a new report published…
Dire predictions about state budget woes turned out to be much too gloomy. Despite this, Democrats in Congress and the…
This week, the anti-tobacco organization “Flavors Hook Kids” held an online news conference for Maine media. During the event, leaders…
The Paycheck Protection Program, part of the federal CARES Act passed last year, was crafted by Congress to provide loans…
Governor Janet Mills wants to balance her bloated budget on the backs of struggling small business owners, forcing them to…
As I dig deeper into the recent supplemental and biennial budget proposals from Governor Janet Mills, the truth about her…
Maine Governor Janet Mills released the details of her second proposed biennial budget last Friday following a closed-door media briefing and multiple press…
Though Maine’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has undoubtedly taken a toll on the state’s finances, the future budget outlook…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills recently signed a curtailment order to keep the state’s budget stable during this seemingly never-ending period…
Last week, Governor Janet Mills issued a “curtailment order,” a tool Maine governors can wield to balance budgets after the…
August rolled in and although the garden looks good, I cannot say the same for Maine, the Republic or freedom.…
Cartoon by Sam G. Pilgrims
Last month, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu vetoed a two-year state budget because it would have reversed the direction of…
Yesterday, Governor Janet Mills announced that her administration has urged the federal government to provide financial aid to municipalities and…
Since Governor Janet Mills released her biennial budget proposal in February, the fiscal landscape in Maine has changed significantly. The…
A few weeks ago, my radio address focused on the unsustainability of the biennial budget proposed by Governor Mills. Since…
Governor Mills has proposed an $8.04 billion dollar General Fund budget. That is an 11 percent increase over the current…
The Maine Heritage Policy Center (MHPC) on Monday released a new analysis of Gov. Janet Mills’ biennial budget proposal during…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills is trying to pass off her budget proposal, released last Friday, as a reasonable approach to…
Last week I sent Governor-elect Janet Mills my administration’s recommended budget proposal. I called her attention to key measures I…
As usual, the budget comes down to crunch time Folks, it’s déjà vu all over again. I submitted a balanced…
Where is the accountability in Augusta? Lawmakers agreed on Tuesday to establish a special committee designed to formulate a bipartisan…
I’ve said it for years, and I will say it again. There is no amount of your money the Legislature…
Interesting how the Democrats’ “Opportunity Agenda” converges with the British Labour Party’s recently leaked “transformational programme.” Although it’s generally acknowledged that…
Around the state, liberals are touting Maine Democrats’ “Opportunity Agenda” as the solution to our state’s budget woes. There’s no…
Democrats cannot break their bad spending habits. This week I had to sign an Executive Order authorizing the Executive Branch…
New England, on the whole, is an economically-depressed region. Between 2004 and 2014, the average cumulative growth of a New…
AUGUSTA – The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced yesterday its ongoing plan to use more than $89…
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 Contact: Adrienne Bennett, Press Secretary, 207-287-2531 Legislators setting their sights on projected revenues…
Sometimes, seemingly intractable problems need to be addressed with ‘brute force.’ That is, you tell everyone to stop making excuses,…
Days from stepping down as Speaker of the House, John Boehner and other House Republican leaders put forth what will…
Maine ranks 42 in the nation on fiscal health according to a new study from the Mercatus Center at George…
Following secretive, last minute negotiations leading up to the compromise biennial budget, the 127th Legislature saw their budget bill, LD 1019, shot…
On Tuesday, the Maine House and Senate voted in favor of the $6.7 billion budget over Governor Paul R. LePage’s veto.…
On Tuesday Morning, activists, concerned citizens, and advocates will be gathering at the State House to encourage lawmakers to sustain…
On Monday, Gov. LePage is expected to veto the legislature’s $6.7 biennial state budget, and force lawmakers to either over-ride…
“Christmas in July” came early in Maine this year, as Governor LePage used a Christmas tree and rubber pigs in…
The Maine Legislature approved a $6.7 billion biennial budget Tuesday morning, just in time to pass Governor LePage’s ten day…
Details on the latest state budget deal emerged on Tuesday morning, after Republican and Democratic legislative leaders reached a deal…
On Wednesday, Governor Paul R. LePage was joined by Jonathan Williams, Vice President of ALEC’s Center for State Fiscal Reform, at…
Maine Democrats have finally responded to Governor LePage’s budget proposal, announcing their plan last week exactly three months after the…
Governor LePage’s effort to end revenue sharing in Maine is being combated in Augusta with a proposal for local option…
Early Friday morning, Senate Republicans passed their first budget since 2006. The vote was split along party lines 52-46, with…
On Tuesday, U.S. House Republican leadership unveiled their conservative budget proposal that seeks to eliminate the federal deficit over the…
Voters and legislators across Maine are just beginning to sort through Governor LePage’s ambitious new tax reform package. While many…
On Friday, Governor Paul R. LePage released his biennial budget. The highly anticipated budget includes significant changes to the state’s…
From David Sorensen, House Republican Communications Director AUGUSTA – The Maine Legislature’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs (AFA) Committee agreed early Wednesday…
AUGUSTA – Maine Democrats are calling the 126th Legislature’s Democrat-backed budget “responsible” — yet again — despite new calls for…
“I think every president in the intense media environment we have now, certainly every two-term president, gets to a point…
AUGUSTA – The Maine State Legislature on Wednesday voted to override Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of the $6.3 billion legislative…
AUGUSTA – Maine Gov. Paul LePage on Monday officially vetoed the Legislature’s proposed budget for the next two years, citing…
AUGUSTA – Maine Gov. Paul R. LePage announced Thursday that he intends to veto the Legislature’s budget proposal and called…
AUGUSTA – The Maine Legislature on Thursday night gave final approval to a controversial $6.3 billion budget for 2014-15 that…
AUGUSTA – Maine’s Republican Senators sent letters Wednesday to many mayors, city managers, selectman, school board members, and other municipal…
Before the 2012 presidential campaign got going in earnest, there was a boomlet in some circles for (of all people)…
By Rep. Kathleen Chase (R-Wells) If most of us won a small lottery and received monthly payments over 10 years, we…
While much focus has been placed on Governor LePage’s proposal to suspend revenue sharing payments to municipalities in order to…
AUGUSTA – Governor Paul R. LePage has proposed a balanced state budget that reflects necessary fiscal discipline which reduces the…
Audio of the Governor’s Budget Message can be found here. Hello. This is Governor Paul LePage. These are challenging and difficult…
When Halloween is over, the masks come off, at least for trick-or-treaters. Thus, it’s also a good time to note…
Maine Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew informed the Legislature on Friday that the projected $12.5 million…
This week, the Maine legislature will reconvene to consider another supplemental budget. As the Appropriations Committee joins hands once again,…
Governor Paul LePage is doing exactly what he’s promised Mainers he’d do from the first day he set foot on…
“I had a dream last night, About the comin’ fight. Somebody yelled ‘Attack!’ And there I stood With an arrow…
Governor LePage’s proposed MaineCare cuts have the social services community in an uproar. And this makes sense – no one…